Presenters at the 16th annual 2008 ESPY Awards, to be handed out in July, range from Lance Armstrong to Zac Efron to Jet Li. Hosted by Justin Timberlake, the annual ceremony deals out awards to athletes using fan-based voting. The…
The Food Network is hedging its bets this summer, bringing new hosts into the fold while backing them up with a few MVPs. Bobby Flay, host of a panoply of Food Network shows from “Iron Chef” to “Throwdown,” will add…
Mediacom Communications will add video-on-demand programming from the Pentagon Channel to its service in the Escambia and Santa Rosa counties of Florida, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Among the programs to be offered from the channel, which is a satellite-TV service…
Discovery Communications has made a deal with Blockbuster for the retailer to sell Discovery’s programming on DVD. More than 2,500 Blockbuster stores will carry more than three dozen nonfiction titles from Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC, Discovery Kids and the…
Filmmaker George Lucas testified in front of the House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee in support of high-speed Internet access for students, school and libraries, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Lucas argued that connection fees for wiring schools and libraries should be…
Cablevision Systems has added Versus and Golf Channel to the on-demand options available to its digital cable customers. Versus on Demand will offer subscribers sports programming including National Hockey League, international cycling, hunting, boxing and mixed martial arts. Golf Channel…
A GroupM study found that the mean average of time spent online is expected to rise to 46 minutes from 27 minutes in 2005, Broadcasting & Cable reports. However, the study claims traditional media forms such as television are not…
Sinclair Broadcast Group will buy a Raycom Media station in Richmond-Petersburg, Va., Broadcasting & Cable reports. Sinclair will pay $85 million for the assets of WTVR, a CBS affiliate in the market, the newspaper says. —Vlada Gelman
Hispanic media agency Zubi Advertising of Miami and Hispanic TV network Univision signed an $80 million cross-platform upfront deal, MediaWeek reports. The deal includes advertising on Univision’s three TV networks–Univision, TeleFutura and Galavision–in addition to 64 owned and operated TV…